Re: 3.2 Release Notes: Featured Apps

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:43:33PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
>> I'll also try and assist in the release notes. I'll assist, so if you
>> (Andre/Alan/sri) think something I wrote is bad, just change please.
>
> I've changed loads of things. See
> http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/index.html.en (I like
> this more than the yelp output).

Great!

> Question:
>  * how wide should screenshots be? I used 800px for sushi, but copied a
>   lot from other sources, widest screenshot is 1040px or so

The 3.0 screenshots were taken at 1280x800 and then resized to be no
wider than 668px.

> Planned user structure (it mostly already looks like this):
>  - user changes
>  - online accounts (ideally in "better integration", but need it to
>   explain Documents, Contacts)
>  - web applications
>  - contacts
>  - documents
>  - quick preview / sushi
>  - greater integration, with loads of subsections such as:
>    - colour stuff
>    - wacom
>    - messaging
>    - new gdm
>    - loads more (please just see the url)
>  - new help
>  - more beautiful
>  - shell extensions
>  - "there's more"
>
> ==> anyone disagree with this layout? I killed the gnome-control-center
> section. IMO it should be explained where it makes sense.

Looks good to me. Agree about gcc. I would perhaps split out colour
management and messaging into their own items...

> Working on:
>  - finished sections should have the references (URLs, etc) as comments
>   in the source
>  - more screenshot (I am a screenshot junkie)
>  - IMPORTANT: fact checking
>  - screenshots for stuff I cannot do, e.g. wacom, colour management
>  - maybe add a section for: "Redesigned user interaction in the file
>   chooser dialog (see federicos posts for details)" / put it as a
>   sort of footnote together with Documents?
>
> Oh, the amount of changes in GNOME 3.2 is just amazing. Who knew that
> e.g. totem can now rotate your movies? Just a one-liner...

Allan
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